{"product_id":"chicago-poems-by-carl-sandburg","title":"‘Chicago Poems’ by Carl Sandburg","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1916, \u003cem\u003eChicago Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is Carl Sandburg’s rough-edged portrait of an industrial America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSandburg writes in a loose, muscular free verse that deliberately drags poetry out of the drawing room and into the noise of ordinary work. The famous title poem gives Chicago its enduring image as the “City of the Big Shoulders,” and alongside this poems swagger are others more subtle, about poverty, migration, war, grief, exploitation and the beauty that persists inside mechanised life. The city becomes both subject and method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA foundational collection of American modernist poetry, and particularly interesting now for the way Sandburg places labour and urban experience at the centre of literary attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDover Publications, New York, 1994. Dover Thrift Editions. Unabridged paperback edition of the collection first published by Henry Holt in 1916. Light shelf wear and rubbing to wrappers, with minor edge and corner wear; internally clean and firmly bound. Very good condition. This edition is 88 pages.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46196725350483,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_64.png?v=1788924016","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/chicago-poems-by-carl-sandburg","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}